Feature: Pepper Grinder’s Solo Dev Digs Into Scope, Smash Bros. & “Crunchy Feedback”

“I just made a game I always wanted to play”.

It might feel like a long time since Pepper Grinder was unearthed for Switch at the November 2022 Indie World Showcase, but it has been even longer for Riv Hester, the game’s solo developer at studio Ahr Ech, who first dug up the idea seven years ago.

This is Sonic the Hedgehog meets Drill Dozer (by way of a little Shovel Knight), as you glide booty-less pirate Pepper through a series of burrow-able stages with their trusty drill, Grinder, to reclaim their stolen fortunes.

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